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social dynamics in operation
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
- Magazine Year
- 2002
- Magazine Number
- 1
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- Lahiri, Debabrata
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- Mitra, Santanu
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- empowerment, emancipatie, vrouwenbewegingen
- Description
- In a game theoretic framework it can be argued that a gender sensitive institution is an offshoot of certain social conditions, which in most cases need to be acted upon by some anti-establishment catalytic agent. In a society characterized by gender exploitation, catalytic agent can only come exogenously. For a sub-society it is easier to come across such an exogenous catalytic agent. The specific community conditions prevailing in such a sub-society may also prove to be congenial for a catalytic agent to act upon, or even to emerge from. In a larger canvas, however, as the exogenous force transforms into mere endogenous entity, and the society takes on the general character of male-dominance, the space for exogenous agency shrinks. There are, however, three possible escape routes from this closure. Firstly, external effects of women's empowerment in one subsociety on another may snowball. Secondly, the awareness campaign presently underway on a global scale is itself a potent exogenous catalytic agent. Thirdly, general development programs undertaken within a patriarchal order may unwittingly create conditions conducive to feminist struggle.
empowerment, entrepreneurship and the welfare of women
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
- Magazine Year
- 2018
- Magazine Number
- 3
- Creator
- Raghunandan, Varsha
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- feminisme, emancipatie, empowerment, ontwikkelingslanden, internationaal
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- This paper highlights the importance of the role of women in the economic and public sphere, and also explores the various means and steps that have been taken and further measures that can be taken to empower women and encourage entrepreneurship in developing economies such as India. This paper would thus like to bring to the fore that empowerment of women is as important to an economy as it is for their individual well-being and ultimately their liberation.
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
- Magazine Year
- 2014
- Magazine Number
- 2
- Creator
- Liu, Dongxiau
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- wereldvrouwenconferenties, emancipatie, gelijke behandeling, vrouwenbewegingen, VN, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1995, 20e eeuw
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- 'Between 1975 and 1995, a total of four world conferences on women took place under the sponsorship of the United Nations. These mega events were accorded a prominent place in the International/global women’s movement. This paper argues that we need to make a distinction between these two kinds of global organizing for gender equality. The former were sponsored by an international bureaucracy whereas the latter was started by women activists. Clarifying the difference helps to recognize the unique challenges posed by the world conferences for activists of the international/global women’s movement in the following aspects: dealing with logistical challenges, setting global priorities, coordinating international lobbying, and pushing for national implementation. Drawing on personal accounts, organizational records and United Nations documents, the paper explores how women activists adapted to the challengesand what lessons they offered for transnational activism in general.'
New Writings in Feminist and Women’s Studies—Winning and Short-listed Entries from the 2020 Feminist Studies Association’s (FSA) Annual Student Essay Competition [Special Issue]
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
- Magazine Year
- 2020
- Magazine Number
- 3
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- Rowell, Carli > (ed.)
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- emancipatie, LHBT, televisie, literatuur, wetgeving, politiek, seksueel geweld, vrouwenbewegingen, mannelijkheid, Verenigde Staten, India, essays
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- In this special issue FSA provides a platform to showcasing the work and fresh novel thinking of emerging feminist scholars with the articles: - Unending and uncertain: thinking through a phenomenological consideration of self-harm towards a feminist understanding of embodied agency / Veronica Heney - Postfeminist Hegemony in a Precarious World: Lessons in Neoliberal Survival from RuPaul’s Drag Race / Phoebe Chetwynd - Liminal Space and Minority Communities in Kate O’Brien’s Mary Lavelle (1936) / Amy Finlay-Jeffrey - The Communal Violence Bill: Women’s Bodies as Repositories of Communal Honour / Zara Ismail - A Critique of Anti-Carceral Feminism / Amy Masson - The Pussyhat Project: Texturing the Struggle for Feminist Solidarity / Katja May - Masculine Failure and Male Violence in Noah Hawley’s Fargo / J. T. Weisser
women’s ordinary lives in an East German factory
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
- Magazine Year
- 2017
- Magazine Number
- 4
- Creator
- Kranz, Susanne
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- socialisme, emancipatie, dagelijks leven, Oost-Duitsland, 20e eeuw
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- This article explores the everyday lives of women working in an East German factory (1946 and 1991) and examines the state-sanctioned women’s policies, how they were implemented and how women perceived these policies and the officially accomplished emancipation of men and women. This research shed light on and questions the actually accomplished equality of the sexes that was so imperative in socialist state rhetoric.
revolt killing
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
- Magazine Year
- 2015
- Magazine Number
- 2
- Creator
- Cetin, Ihsan
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- eerwraak, geweld, islam, emancipatie, volkscultuur, Turkije, 2010-2019, 21e eeuw
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- Author questions recent increasing femicides in Turkey through the examination of their reasons and dynamics. Therefore, author starts with analyzing current terms such as 'honor killing', 'töre killing' and 'crimes of passion'. Author claims that the recent description of the murder of women in Turkey as 'honor killings' is misleading. Turkey must employ finer distinctions among types of femicide so as to prevent murderers and the larger society from justifying such actions through claims of honor. This paper thus asserts that the analysis of femicide in Turkey, as a Muslim country, should go far beyond the context of honor killing and argues that such examination must consider new social and economic changes as well as the new status of women in modern Turkish society. Author raises a new argument by suggesting a new term, 'revolt killing', for conceptualizing femicide in Turkey in tandem with recent social change and the increasing status of women. Author argues that revolt killing is the concept of conflict between tradition and modernity, and it claims that recent increasing femicides in Turkey are closely related with the changing status of women towards modernity in contrast to the stability of men’s status in tradition.
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
- Magazine Year
- 2005
- Magazine Number
- 1
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- Kranz, Susanne
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- emancipatie, gelijke behandeling, gender, arbeid, economische zelfstandigheid, overheidsbeleid, Oost-Duitsland
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- Author analysed the womens movement in East Germany, and whether an independent women's movement existed or not. The state's policy toward women was primarily aimed in the direction of mothers, and not toward women as women. The women's question was included into the social question and the class struggle, and not identified as an individual aspect of gender relations. Gradually, women began to realize that emancipation and equality meant more than employment and economic independence.
lessons learnt for the future, or yesterdays and tomorrow : women in Afghanistan
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
- Magazine Year
- 2003
- Magazine Number
- 3
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- Ahmed-Ghosh, Huma
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- geschiedenis, emancipatie, islam, moslima's, politiek, platteland, patriarchaat, fundamentalisme, Afghanistan, onderzoek
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- Author, an assistant professor at the Department of women's studies at San Diego State University, wants to position women for the future through lessons learnt from the past by recounting the history of women in Afghanistan. The focus of this paper is on the importance of rural Afghanistan in the shaping of the nation and on women's status. Author traces the history of women in Aghanistan to show that women in Afghanistan were not always oppressed by fundamentalism as occurred under the Mujahideen and the Taliban. And she also shows that women's issues were part of national construction agendas like they were already in the 1920's. Author also tries to highlight the power of tribal and community leaders in defining the role of women and in resisting any modernization that would challenge their patriarchal authority. This paper also highlights the efforts made to empower women to create a sense of nationhood.
substantiating women's political participation
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
- Magazine Year
- 2005
- Magazine Number
- 2
- Creator
- Vissandjee, Bilkis
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- Apale, Alisha
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- Wieringa, Saskia
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- [et al.]
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- politieke participatie, empowerment, emancipatie, loopbanen, professionalisering, macht, overheid, India, onderzoek
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- Gender functions as a construct of evolving aspects of women's identities and is a medium through which expectations are prescribed, social norms are formed and power relations are negiotiated. Gender constructs that hinder women's access to the public spheres of society lessen the possibility for equitable and empowering life conditions. Facilitating women's entry into political bodies across the world is also compromised by persistent obstacles in women's opportunities in both political and private spheres of life. This paper engages female and male panchayat members in rural Gujarat, India. The main goal is to understand how being a woman affects access to political office, experiences therein, negotiation procedures and decision taken. Facilitating female representation in local governmental structures (a panchayat) through a quota represents one of many routes toward empowerment and one potential means of improving health and household welfare. When empowerment is examined within India's panchayat quota, dimensions such as gender and corresponding perceptions, norms and conditions evidence the middle of gender as a persistent fault-line in number-based initiatives. The panchayat mirrors gendered social realities, demonstrating how complex the processes of substantial democratic political participation and women's empowerment are, in India and elsewhere.
an historical overview
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
- Magazine Year
- 2003
- Magazine Number
- 1
- Creator
- Zhou, Jinghao
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- communisme, emancipatie, vrouwenbewegingen, China
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- The Communist Party of China (CPC) declares that they are the sole savior of women's liberation in China and that Chinese women can't do without them. Author goes into these matters and concludes that Chinese women have to rely on their efforts to be fully liberated.